Classroom distribution
Hi! I will be your TA for this term 🙋
Lab structure
- Duration: 2 hours.
- We will take a break midway.
- Two separate lab sessions.
- Make sure to review the pre-reading material on the website.
- You have been assigned to a group for all lab assignments.
Lab structure
- Each team will receive two exercise sheets and one handout sheet.
- Discuss every question with your teammates.
- Ask!
Lab 1
Lab topics:
R review
R Advantages:
- Open-Source.
- An Active Community.
- Support for statistical programming is excellent.
- Easy data wrangling.
Lab 1
Before Starting:
- Ensure R is working properly on your computer.
- I recommend RStudio, an IDE with several advantages:
- Simple process for writing R code
- Ability to inspect variables
- Visualization of generated plots
- Additional useful features
Lab 1
Hints and advises:
The required functions can be found in the pre-reading material.
When you need to view the required arguments for a function, you can do so by typing ?function.
How to access a dataset’s variable?
dataset$variable
Lab 2
Lab topic:
Probability and Random Variables
Hints and Tips:
\(P(\text{at least x times something happens})\) can be broken down into all possible scenarios.
Q2: The reliability of the chain is the probability that the chain works.
It’s recommended to start by dividing the chain into two sections.